Music

At the beginning of this year I had a personal goal to listen to new music every month. It's not that I don't ever listen to new music - I do try to go to festivals and as many gigs as possible, so I hear a lot of new music regularly. The thing is, I only really take...

There's one thing that's carried me through January 2017, and that's music. It can be a difficult month all round. Your bank balance is running low after the Christmas present spree, and you're weighed down by the worries from the previous year. Music can be a great distraction, and this month has brought some seriously great releases. So,...

Do you ever get that feeling when you're listening to a song, where you love it so much that you just want to ingest it. You listen to it repeatedly and you still can't get enough, as if there's some hole you're trying to fill with it. That's how I felt the first few 100 times I listened...

Bon Iver have always been there, I've heard a song and known it's them, but never chosen to play an album from beginning to end. But alas, I finally did, and guys I now love nothing more than a Sunday night bath, fizzing bath bomb in the tub, face mask slathered on my face (and any spare surface...

As the day comes closer for the long-awaited Death Cab For Cutie gig in London, I've fallen head first into their album backlog, or discography if you will. I have my favourite, as every Death Cab fan will, but an album I want to swim in each and every day recently is Kintsugi. You could call the past...

Christmas always comes around so soon, suddenly the radio is blasting out Mariah Carey's 'All I want for Christmas is You', and you forget that we're technically still in Autumn. So to ease you in, we've put together two playlists - a Winter Favourites Playlist and a Christmas Playlist. So if, like me, you're not quite ready for...

Ben Howard's Every Kingdom overflowed with dreams of campfire singing and learning to ride the waves, so where does I Forget Where We Were take us? There are the musicians that stun us with their technical skills, and then there are the songwriters who seem to know how to turn those indescribable feelings into words and sounds. Ben...

First Aid Kit is a folk duo from Sweden made up of sisters Klara and Johanna. With an early introduction to music, Klara soon found her style with influences such as Bright Eyes, Emmylou Harris and Joni Mitchell. It wasn't long till Klara persuaded Johanna to compose and sing with her, and now with their third album, Stay...

Back in 2004, during a trip to Wales with the family, we walked into one of my favourite music shops. It had the stands with the headphones so you can listen to an album that's on display. They always had quirky choices on offer, never something that was in the charts. One time I went in, Regina Spektor...

In an interview, The Head And The Heart were asked where the name for the band came from, they answered - "Your head is telling you to be stable and find a good job, but you know in your heart that this is what you're supposed to do even if it's crazy." This resonates with me and I'm...

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Nicola Semple

Lifestyle Blogger & Creative Marketing Consultant

Hi, I’m Nicola, a Creative Marketing Consultant by day, blogger/creator by night. On Gypsy Dreams, you’ll find inspiration for your next film night, Spotify playlist, Autumn feast… and so much more! Sign up to our monthly newsletter, that way you won’t miss a thing!

About Gypsy Dreams

Gypsy Dreams is, in a way, a contradiction. Gypsy – ‘a nomadic or free-spirited person’ and Dreams – ‘a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind’, you could say have opposite outcomes. A gypsy would explore the world freely, while a dreamer would only dream about or imagine doing so. Exploration isn’t necessarily tied to the number of steps your feet have taken, but also the books you’ve read, the music you’ve loved and the films that got you through. That’s what this blog is all about – exploration in every form.